The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-10-15

The statement OF county expenses for year
ended May, 1887, is published in The UNION to-
day and its great length will not permit us to give
our usual amount of reading matter. This will
continue three weeks and all missed insertions of
standing advertisements will be made good at the
end of the term for which they are to run. Ad-
vertisers will please remember this.
Mrs Francis A. Wisner died suddenly at
the residence of her son, Mr.. Jas. L. Wisner, at
Stevenson Station, Green Spring Valley, on We'd
nesday Of last week, aged 81 years. She was
highly esteemed by large circle of friends and
was widely known for her benevolent character
and many works of charity. Deceased was sister
of Mrs. James w. Owings, of Towsontown.
The magnificent Arabian stallion imported
four years ago from Russia by the Winans family,
died at "Crimea," the country seat in this county,
one day last week. He was purchased at heavy
cost from the stables of the Grand Duke Alexis,
and was one of the handsomest specimens of horse
flesh ever seen in this country. He was sorrel
and was spotted with golden spheres, ranging in
size from silver dollar down to a gold dollar.
Boy gupners were out in force last Saturday
and Charles street avenue, for q distance of six
miles out, was lined with them. These youngsters
ranged in age from 10 to 16 years and travelled in
parties of half dozen less. 1t safe to say that
they made it uncomfortable for all the little birds,
as a boy with gun cannot resist the temptation
to shoot at anything with feathers on it. 1t is
fortunate that none of them blew their own brains
out.
&C. L. limerick and John Martin, of High
landtown, 18th district, who were arrested last
week on the charge of trying to defraud the Gov
eminent by introducing diseased cow into herd
of sound cattle, with the intention of obtaining
gay for the entire number exceeding their actual
value, had a hearing before Commissioner Rogers
on Monday. They were both held for the action
of the U. S. Court-Emerick in $4,000 and Martin
in $4,000.
There was quite rush on the County Com
missioners on Wednesday. Some people were on
road business, some wanted judges of election APP
pointed and some wanted voting places changed.
The Board was beset from all sides and for want
of time much of the business had to 60 over. There
is no office in the gift of the people of the county
that is calculated to try mans patience SO much
as that of Commissioner, and an angel could not
fill the place without making some enemies.
--On the 18th of Oct, 1885, the fine residence
of Mrs. Van Tine, on Green Spring avenue, near
Druid Hill Park, was destroyed by fire. There
was an insurance of $27 900 on the house and fur
niture, $4,000 of which was in the Clinton Fire In
surance Company of New York, which refused to
pay upon the ground that the husband transferred
the property to the wife without notifying the
pany Mrs. Van Tine sued in the Superior Court
of Baltimore, and on Monday verdict was given
IN her favor for SIS, 1880.
A good many citizens of Baltimore county,
who have never served on jury, sometimes COM
plain that their names are not placed in the box
and assert that Towsontown is always favored in
this respect. There is at least one good citizen
here-a sober, industrious and respectable man
who has conducted business in the town for many
years, whose name has never been in the box and
who has never served on any jury. So from this
it would appear that the far-o citizens are not the
only ones who are not called on to do jury duty.
Those who like to see novel things will
have an opportunity to do so next Tuesday at the
farm of Mr.. D. H. Rice, Cowpens Station, Mary
opportunity to witness the moving of a building
by means of an altogether new plan. The man
who will do the work is Mr.. Henry Nicols, of Fed
eralsburg, Md, who, it is said, has moved barn
three miles in two days and who has accomplished
other remarkable things in the same line in an in
credibly short space of time. Mr.. Rice extends
an invitation to those interested to witness the
operation, and from what we have learned it will
be we'll worth seeing.
One of the handsomest and best managed
farms in Baltimore county is that owned by Mr..
John Smith, Democratic candidate for County
Commissioner, on the Jarrettsville pike, 10th dis
trict. comparatively few years ago some of
this land was old sedge fields, apparently so poor
that crow could not live on it. Now it is in
splendid condition, very productive, and enclosed
with handsome hedge fences, sight that makes
the heart glad to gaze upon. Mr.. Smith is an ex
cellent farmer and @ level-headed business man
and should he be elected Commissioner and man
age the affairs of that Office as successfully he
does his own private business, the people will have
no reason to complain.